Residents get the 'ok' to move back into Hartford's Bushnell on the Park.

HARTFORD — Residents of downtown's Bushnell on the Park were allowed late Tuesday to return to their homes, five days after the building's heating system failed during a stretch of frigid weather.

"The inspector went out and determined the heat was on and sufficient," Daniel Loos, director of licenses and inspections for the city of Hartford, said. "It is ok to reoccupy."

The city ordered the curved, 12-story building on Bushnell Park be emptied of its residents Friday after a heating pipe ruptured and set of pipes supplying fire sprinklers burst. Troubles with the heating system surfaced Thusday, but there have been on-and-off problems in the previous six weeks, tenants said.

Earlier Tuesday, the city's fire marshal signed off on repairs to the sprinkler system.

The New York company that owns much of the building said it couldn't estimate how many residents had been displaced but with 180 residential units, the number could easily be well over 200.

Residents were forced to find temporary lodgings. But the New York company, Gideon Asset Management LLC, said it had reserved 90 hotel rooms to address some of the need.

"We have thankfully been able to move tenants back in the building," Isaac Klein, managing partner at Gideon, said late Tuesday. "We ae now busy ensuring to the very best of our ability that this never happens again."

Klein said the building's management will meet with tenants over the next two weeks "to work out compensation for each tenant."

He added: "We are thankful for our tenants cooperation and understanding during this difficult experience."

Gideon purchased 129 of the 180 residential condominiums at Bushnell on the Park in late December.

Since the units in the Wells Street building were converted to condos in the late 1980s, the majority have been held by a single owner and rented out.

The remaining 51 units are individually owned — many of them also rented out — and were not part of Gideon's purchase.

Klein has said the troubles with the heating system have now prompted Gideon to accelerate renovation plans for the building. The renovations were initially expected to begin in the summer. Klein declined to estimate the magnitude of Gideon's investment in the building.

"This has been a curve ball for us over just 10 weeks of ownership, but we will bring this building up to where a downtown Class A asset belongs," Klein said.

This story was updated on February 25, 2015 at 7:15 a.m. to include comments from the building's owner.